In a federal state with weak political institutions, constituent units might protect their enterprises from enforcement of federal taxes. The effectiveness of such protection depends on the ability of local politicians to extract rents from enterprises. They can do so when local monopolies can...

New Delhi launched its SEZ revolution in April 2000 to secure the country a two digit growth rate, copying from China what during the previous two decades proved to be an excellent strategy, this paper proposes a new form of comparison between China and India SEZ strategies. It starts reviewing...

The present article was written with the intention of examining the nature of Special Economic Zone having societal developmental goals. In the process, highlighting their common problems and proposing answers those problems through studying their developmental significance. The article also...